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Title: Department store officials celebrating J.W. Robinson Co's 50th anniversary, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: March 1, 1933
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
W.L. Valentine, (furthest man seated with notes in hand), with other company officials and city dignitaries at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the J.W. Robinson Co department store, probably at the downtown store at Hope St. and 7th St. .
A different photograph from the same event appears with the article, "Store Marks Anniversary; Throngs at Robinson's Levee Voice Appreciation of Entertainment for Eye and Ear," Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 1933: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: Valentine, W.L., J.W. Robinson Pres., 50th Anniversary, 1933
Handwritten on negative: W.L. Valentine
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4092
ark:/21198/zz002cptgf
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Department stores--California--Los Angeles
J. W. Robinson Co
Valentine, W.L. (William Lucas), 1870-1942
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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